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Thought-of-the-Day
June 2010 Archive

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06/01/10"The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers." - Ruth Benedict
06/02/10"My own view about bringing up kids is praise, praise and praise again." - Sir Richard Branson
06/03/10"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul." - George Bernard Shaw
06/04/10"The Interstate highway system has made it possible to go from sea to shining sea without seeing anything." - Charles Kuralt
06/05/10"A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her." - David Brinkley
06/06/10"Americans have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?" - Alexis de Tocqueville
06/07/10"You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow." - Harriet Martineau
06/08/10"History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly, it is not a sufficient condition." - Milton Friedman
06/09/10"Pride, like humility, is destroyed by one's insistence that he possesses it." - Kenneth Bancroft Clark
06/10/10"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure." - Helen Keller
06/11/10"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle
06/12/10"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them." - James Baldwin
06/13/10"How often in life it is a truth that we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies." - Leon Uris
06/14/10"The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was written by their lives. The flag is the embodiment not of sentiment, but of history." - Woodrow Wilson
06/15/10"I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work." - Neil Armstrong
06/16/10"They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." - Andy Warhol
06/17/10"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing." - Albert Schweitzer
06/18/10"Happiness, it seems to me, consists of two things: first, in being where you belong, and second - and best - in comfortably going through everyday life, that is, having had a good night's sleep and not being hurt by new shoes." - Theodor Fontane
06/19/10"I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage." - Charles de Secondat
06/20/10"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection." - Sigmund Freud
06/21/10"We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over." - Aneurin Bevan
06/22/10"The time to relax is when you don't have time for it." - Sydney J. Harris
06/23/10"The summer night is like a perfection of thought." - Wallace Stevens
06/24/10"One must believe in the reality of time. Otherwise one is just dreaming." - Simone Weil
06/25/10"I cannot seem to feel alive unless I am alert and I cannot feel alert unless I push past the point where I have control." - Charles Bowden
06/26/10"My experience is what I agree to attend to." - William James
06/27/10"Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt." - Herbert Hoover
06/28/10"We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries." - Will Durant
06/29/10"Spontaneity is total sincerity - and as a rule the civilized adult is goaded into it only by despair, suffering or imminent death." - Alan Watts
06/30/10"A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he's crossing a one-way street." - Laurence J. Peter


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